Production Scheduler jobs
The productivity of most factories and production lines is not a constant stream with a set pace. Maximum productivity is only ever an advantage when there are buyers at the end of the system or where long-term warehousing is part of the business plan. For the most part, productivity will fluctuate as demand rises and falls, with triggers that include the changing seasons, sales promotions and such like. Even a major sporting even like the World Cup can have a massive effect on the demand for certain products.
The production scheduler will be in charge of bridging the gap between demand and productivity. He or she will be in regular contact with the sales team, and possibly also with customers, to get a picture of current demand. There could also be an element of forecasting in the job, upping productivity in anticipation of demand rather than after direct purchase orders. Of course, you can’t turn up production like you can turn up a tap; it will also involve liaising with suppliers to ensure raw material and component flows are increased, and the more time they are given the better, as they will then have their own supply considerations. The staffing, warehousing, procurement and logistics elements will also need to be addressed.
Using a bland of business intelligence and concrete orders, production schedulers will be able to keep customer satisfaction high while maintaining efficiency, ensuring a reliable raw materials supply and keeping warehousing and transportation costs to a minimum.
The skills required
The production scheduler will need to be constantly in touch with the current state of play as regards prevailing productivity and stock levels of the company. Only that way can the daily and seasonal fine-tuning take place to satisfy the customers’ demands. This will require a host of skills in the production scheduler, including: communications skills to both absorb and transmit the best possible information from and to all parties; analytical skills to take a big picture approach to the schedule as well as micromanaging the individual elements; and experience in planning and scheduling would certainly be a great help.
Since most of the work will be carried out as the computer desk, previous experience of scheduling and planning solutions would be an enormous benefit, as would a good understanding of the common office solutions.
Production Scheduler Jobs in Torquay
Torquay is located on the East-facing coastal area of Devon, in the area called Torbay. Exeter is 17 miles (27 km) to the north and Plymouth is 27 miles (43 k) to the west. Torquay was a tiny fishing and farming village until the Napoleonic wars, when the Royal Navy would take anchor in the bay and the members of the upper ranks would often go to shore in the area. It soon gained a reputation as being a healthy place to stay and by the 19th century, just in time for the arrival of the railways it became a famous spa town and later, a tourist resort. Nowadays it has a static population of around 65,000 but in high season this can swell to 200,000, the size of a small city.
Tourist towns almost always have great logistical requirements, which is why Production Scheduler jobs can sometimes become available in the town or the surrounding area. Torquay is not particularly industrialised, but there are several trading estates dotted around the outskirts. Plymouth and Exeter are better employers and are both nearby, which does make Torquay a popular commuter town, and people living there seeking non-tourism related work will often look north and west.
For its population, Torquay has produced a fair number of world-famous people. Top of the pile is thriller author Agatha Christie, for whom a mile of plaques, the “Agatha Christie Mile”, is dedicated. Peter Cook, one half of Pete and Dud, was born in the town, as was comedy actor Miranda Hart and model Lily Cole. Sketches of The Goodies and Monty Python’s Flying Circus were filmed there, and it was during one of the latter’s stays that the team happened upon a grumpy hotelier who became the inspiration for Basil Fawlty, TV’s most famous Torquay-based hotel owner.
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